Today we take you back to when a gallon of gas was $1.09 and movie tickets were less than $3! Listen all day and rock out to tracks from 1985.

What made 1985 rock? Here are a few memories!

MTV launches a sister station, VH1, with a more classic rock sound targeted at an older age group.

The Breakfast Club, The Goonies, Back To The Future, Fletch, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, Cocoon, The Color Purple and Mad Max Beyond Thunder Dome are all in theatres.

40 artists gather to record “We Are The World” for African famine relief.

After being fired from Metallica, guitarist Dave Mustaine forms Megadeth in Los Angeles. In May they release their debut album “Killing Is My Business… and Business Is Good!” on Combat Records.

The Live Aid concert for famine relief is held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia and broadcast live worldwide and features reunions of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath.

Organized by Neil young and John Mellencamp, the first annual Farm Aid benefit concert is held to benefit American Farmers.

Motley Crue release “Theatre of Pain”

The Parents Music Resource Center (fronted by Tipper Gore) holds hearings in Washington DC on music/lyric censorship. Dee Snider, Frank Zappa and John Denver testify.